Gobble, Gobble, Etc.

As long as we're talking turkey and Thanksgiving, allow me to nod in the direction of the corporate overlords and remind folks that AOL's got quite a bit of stuff for planning your Thanksgiving, starting with recipies from the food channel, and continuing on to overall holiday planning. Let me say that as a practical matter I'm alway wary of gorgeous table settings like this, because my general rule is one shouldn't eat at a table one would feel is a tragedy to disturb. But it does make for a nice picture.

Let's also have this entry serve as an outpost for Thanksgiving-related links: If you have a Thanksgiving-related Web site that you particularly like or find useful, on AOL or off, leave the link here so that other people can check it out as well. They will be thankful. And so will I.

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#5 Comment from lurkynat
11/23/05 12:47 AM | Permalink

hi John! nice entry
natalie
#4 Comment from judithheartsong
11/22/05 2:57 PM | Permalink

Hi John,

http://forimmediaterelease.biz/index.php/weblog/the_hobson_and_holtz_report_podcast_87_november_21_2005/

judi
#3 Comment from rap4143
11/22/05 1:58 PM | Permalink

Let me share my daughter's table last year before everyone sat down to eat LOL. Terrible photo but nice table.
Betty http://journals.aol.com/hhdecor2/HomeLifeDecoratingBlog/entries/319
#2 Comment from jaykolb
11/22/05 1:35 PM | Permalink

Off topic, but I have put this in "Magic Smoke", and will be commenting in several other journals because I want as many people as possible to think about this:

We have been told that the text in the alerts was shortened (in the same update as gave us the banners) in order to fix the alert delivery problem.

In the past, the alerts were long enough that I was often able to read an entire entry without having to go to the actual journal. Now, I almost always have to go to the journal (which has forced me to cut down on the number of alerts, since I don't have time for that, especially since the banner ads slow load time). However, I notice that the UK journals, which do not have the ads, still provide long alerts. This implies that the shortening of the alerts is connected somehow to the addition of the banners.

One cannot help but wonder if the purpose of shortening the alerts was NOT to fix an alert problem, but to forcefeed the banner ads. !!!!!

Wouldn't it have been more efficient, more effective, and less disruptive to put the ads in the alerts, and leave the alert text long, rather than putting them in the journals?

~~Silk
#1 Comment from monponsett
11/22/05 12:37 PM | Permalink

From Plymouth County, nonetheless:

http://journals.aol.com/capecoddersbl/TwoMinuteWarning/entries/456

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